Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

From Bluesky:

Ah, look, these are the folks funding taking a wrecking ball to the White House.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-donors

Their names are on the donors list for Trump’s vanity ballroom (and the destruction of the White House).
“In the first Gilded Age, which ran from the 1890s through the 1920s, captains of American industry were dubbed “robber barons” for using their baronial wealth to bribe lawmakers, monopolize industry, and rob average Americans of the productivity of their labors.

Now, in a second Gilded Age, a new generation of robber barons is using their wealth to do the same — and to entrench their power.”
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-billionaires-ballroom?publication_id=365422&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=ce00

Where's The News on this? 1st I've seen! TY @merkley.senate.gov "Dem Sen. Jeff Merkley, a prominent Sen progressive, held Senate floor overnight & into early Wed morning, speaking for more than 13 consecutive hours to protest Trump & his first 9 mos back in Oval Office" thehill.com/homenews/sen...

ICE begins raids on NY street vendors and Eric Adams doesn't know what his police are doing.
“[Donald Trump] claims he’s targeting the ‘worst of the worst.’ Today his agents used batons and pepper spray on street vendors and bystanders on Canal Street. You don’t make New York safer by attacking New Yorkers,”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/new-york-city-chinatown-ice-raids-protests
#NewYork #ICE #Chinatown #Vendors #NYPD #EricAdams

@gleick Senators Merkley and Klobuchar are doing just that right now, live on the Senate floor. It's good stuff ! Should be on (or repeated) all day on all "news" channels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymDt1XecYfI

"New images of the White House East Wing show a much larger demolition site. This is why the White House ordered employees not to share any new photographs or videos of the demolition process."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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Photo below from Parnas' article.

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-struggles-to-recruit-ice

"The physical destruction of the White House is about as giant a metaphor as one can get."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #EconomicElites #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/demolishing-the-presidency

@AlliFlowers True, but he'dhave someone else do it. His tiny hands couldn't handle the knitting needles.

UPDATE: Trump’s nominee for special counsel Paul Ingrassia drops out

Trump Said to Demand Justice Department Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/21/trump-230-million-doj

What to know about the Amazon Web Services outage
"Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption because Amazon’s problem took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal."
https://apnews.com/article/what-to-know-about-the-amazon-web-services-outage-0000019a02c5dea7a7ba2fcda5bc0000

"A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pardoned-capitol-rioter-charged-threatening-hakeem-jeffries-nyc-trump/

It turns out that it costs less to extend the premium tax credits that keep ACA health insurance affordable than it did to pass the Big Ugly Bill that #Trump wanted so badly last summer. (Center on Budget & Policy Priorities)